{"id":14146,"date":"2015-10-28T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=14146"},"modified":"2015-10-27T20:38:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T03:38:54","slug":"ginger-skinny-jeans-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=14146","title":{"rendered":"Ginger Skinny Jeans Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When we last left off<\/a> with my Ginger Skinny Jeans<\/a> adventures oh, a mere\u00a0seven months<\/em> ago, I had gone down from a size 12 to a 10. And then something mysterious happened and although all my clothes are fitting just the way they always have, I recently attempted to shave the muslin down to a size 8, and they’re still too big. Could this be the result of the denim somehow stretching out over the months of neglect?<\/p>\n

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In my craziness of sewing\u00a0up samples for the book and moving my supplies helter skelter, I’ve lost fabric and pattern pieces for my original muslin and am thoroughly confused. At this point I figure I might as well go back to the drawing board and start fresh.\u00a0I’m now happily assembling the pattern pieces, anticipating more progress this go around.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, I had the enormous pleasure of meeting\u00a0Heather<\/a> in person, and the woman is a dynamo. I love her. We perused the essential pit stop for all fabric and sewing aficionados — Drygoods Design<\/a>, naturally — and she kept me in stitches over lunch. Fiercely intelligent, wildly witty and full of gorgeousness,\u00a0you could practically see\u00a0her brain pumping out ideas every nanosecond. Once again, I’ve discovered how easy it is to transition online friendships into face-to-face ones, and it makes me believe in the power of the internet for good.<\/p>\n

So of course, when I finally found my own brain again, I wanted to resurrect the sewing\u00a0of the\u00a0now desperately necessary pair of skinny jeans (I’ve patched and patched my last surviving pair from 8 or 9\u00a0years ago, and we are reaching a point of no return). I’ve learned not to promise anything, but maybe, just maybe, I might be sporting a brand spanking new pair next week…<\/p>\n

Here’s\u00a0what gives me hope at least:\u00a0I may let projects languish, but I rarely entirely give up on them. There’s a chance that I’ll be enjoying\u00a0senior citizen discounts\u00a0by the time I finish a successful pair of skinny jeans, but I will<\/em> get them done, and they will be awesome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we last left off with my Ginger Skinny Jeans adventures oh, a mere\u00a0seven months ago, I had gone down from a size 12 to a 10. And then something mysterious happened and although all my clothes are fitting just the way they always have, I recently attempted to shave the muslin down to a size 8, and they’re still too big. Could this be the result of the denim somehow stretching out over the months of neglect? In my craziness of sewing\u00a0up samples for the book and moving my supplies helter skelter, I’ve lost fabric and pattern pieces for my original muslin and am thoroughly confused. At this point I figure I might as well go back to the drawing board and start fresh.\u00a0I’m now happily assembling the pattern pieces, anticipating more progress this go around. A few weeks ago, I had the enormous pleasure of meeting\u00a0Heather in person, and the woman is a dynamo. I love her. We perused the essential pit stop for all fabric and sewing aficionados — Drygoods Design, naturally — and she kept me in stitches over lunch. Fiercely intelligent, wildly witty and full of gorgeousness,\u00a0you could practically see\u00a0her brain pumping out ideas every nanosecond. Once again, I’ve discovered how easy it is to transition online friendships into face-to-face ones, and it makes me believe in the power of the internet for good. So of course, when I finally found my own brain again, I wanted to resurrect the sewing\u00a0of the\u00a0now desperately necessary pair of skinny jeans (I’ve patched and patched my last surviving pair from 8 or 9\u00a0years ago, and we are reaching a point of no return). I’ve learned not to promise anything, but maybe, just maybe, I might be sporting a brand spanking new pair next week… Here’s\u00a0what gives me hope at least:\u00a0I may let projects languish, but I rarely entirely give up on them. There’s a chance that I’ll be enjoying\u00a0senior citizen discounts\u00a0by the time I finish a successful pair of skinny jeans, but I will get them done, and they will be awesome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sewing","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14146"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14158,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14146\/revisions\/14158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}